MIRANDA PARKES ZOOMER 18 MARCH - 17 APRIL 2021
We are delighted to present Miranda Parkes' first solo exhibition in Wellington .
Her exhibition zoomer brings together works made on, and in response to, various substrates. Paint has primacy and colour is the star and is foregrounded - here glorious fluro colours, golds and silvers are applied to timber pallets, book pages, Perspex and found materials. With not a stretched flat canvas in sight, the artist talks to painting as a discipline - exploring and dismantling its histories, its motifs and its objectness - the title, zoomer, also a playful reference to the human need to create periods, categorise and historicise.
Twenty small paintings made on pages from an old book are central to zoomer and were the starting point for the show. Parkes began the these during the lockdown, when, unable to go to her studio, she had to work at her kitchen table. As these are made in response to each page from a book about French painting, the pallet works are made in response to the 'typography' of this relief object's surface.
In zoomer she plays with depth, layering, surface and substrate disrupting conventions to deliver on her intention to offer viewers "a clear-minded, joyful and reflective space."
Parkes joins the gallery with an impressive pedigree: more than 20 solo exhibitions, over 50 group exhibitions and numerous awards and residencies including the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, the Olivia Spencer Bower Award, a Tylee Cottage artist residency and the William Hodges Fellowship.
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 | Miranda Parkes sweet spot, 2019 gold and silver foil on Perspex, 200 x 200 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes quicksilver, 2019 gold and silver foil on Perspex, 1100 x 1300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes zoomer, 2021 acrylic, gold and silver foil, varnish on compressed wood pallet, 1300 x 1100 x 150mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes new balance, 2021 acrylic, gold and silver foil, varnish on compressed wood pallet, 1300 x 1100 x 150mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes time traveller, 2019 acrylic, gold and silver foil on stainless steel, 375 x 255 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes bodice ripper, 2019 acrylic, gold and silver foil on stainless steel, 375 x 255 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes hot mess, 2019 acrylic, gold and silver foil on found artwork, 505 x 400 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Sunset in the Auvergne (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes all my christmases (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Avenue de l'Opera (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes divine timing (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Eliza (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Fete in a Park (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes FRENCH PAINTING (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes la de Dada (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes RIOT (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes screensaver (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate , 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Seated Woman (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes swansong (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes sweet victory (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes The Box at the Theatre (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes The Third-class Compartment (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes threenager (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes Young Spartans at Wrestling Practice (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes your first rodeo (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes etc (exploded book: French Painting), 2020 mixed media: gold & silver foil, collage elements, acrylic, varnish on photogravure book plate, 370 x 300 mm |
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 | Miranda Parkes sinner, 2021 acrylic, gold and bronze foil, varnish on canvas, 1070 x 1100mm |
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